Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

Love is someone you can be silly with

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.